The TSARVITCH alongside 5th??? – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The TSARVITCH alongside 5th???
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The caption reads "Tsarvitch," a transliteration of the Russian word for an heir to the throne, and it most likely refers to the Imperial Russian Navy battleship *Tsesarevich*, which served as a Pacific flagship during the Russo-Japanese War. The phrase "alongside 5th???" remains unresolved, so the second ship or position it describes cannot be confirmed from the record. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs, produced these negatives in the early twentieth century, when naval and wartime news drew wide public interest. Treat the caption as provisional, since the agency's own identifications were often recorded without verification.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,835 × 4,247 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16040 |
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